World Cinema

• Israel,France
• 2014
• 120min

Nira is a kindergarten teacher who discovers that her young pupil Yoav has a remarkable gift for poetry. Although, at first she hopes to encourage the young boy and nurture his talent, at the same time, Nira starts to share Yoav’s...

• Cannes Film Festival (Critics′ Week)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2014
• 94min

Over Your Dead Body is the latest of director Miike Takashi’s signature horror movies. Kosuke is cast in a theatrical play adapted from Japan’s classic ghost tale Yotsuya Kaidan, a play about betrayal, vengeance and murder. He pla...

Open Cinema

• Austria,Switzerland
• 2014
• 87min

In Vienna, 1932, Viktor, an illustrator, draws the dreams of Professor Freud’s patients. Viktor’s girlfriend Lucy happens to look like the first woman with whom Count Geza von Kozsnom fell in love. Meanwhile, the Count’s wife come...

Special Programs in Focus

• Georgia,France
• 2014
• 93min

For women, the only way to visit a man locked in a prison is by marriage, and so they need a marriage certificate to get a permission of the legally guaranteed visits. They rush to sign the document as a mere formality and spend t...

• Berlin Film Festival (Panorama)

World Cinema

• France
• 2014
• 123min

Maria is at the prime of her acting career, and decides to reappear in the film that made her famous 20 years ago. At the time, she had played the role of a young woman who leads her boss to suicide with her fatal attraction. Now ...

• Cannes Film Festival (In Competition)

World Cinema

• United States
• 2014
• 96min

King Cymbeline, leader of the Briton Motorcycle Club, clashes with the corrupt Roman Police while his radiant but disobedient daughter Imogen fends off assaults on her honor and her life. Cymbeline’s wife and her son aspire to tak...

• Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2014
• 98min

Veteran Iranian director Kamal Tabrizi’s new comedy-drama is about a middle aged, short-tempered man and the ridiculous events that occur following the death of his wife. Kamali holds a fancy funeral for his wife, but it is obviou...

Wide Angle

• Nepal,France
• 2014
• 25min

Krishna has spent the better part of his son’s three-year-life in prison. While on leave he learns his wife is leaving him and taking his son. Krishna comes to the understanding that passing on his Nepalese language and customs ma...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 2014
• 145min

This film, which starts with lyrical music and three siblings running freely in a garden, is about the life of Giacomo Leopardi, one of Italy’s most iconic poets of the 19th century, the Romantic era. The film’s first half, wherei...

• Venice Film Festival (In Competition)

World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2014
• 106min

With her striped bag and matching cat, Aria, a nine-year-old girl, goes back and forth between her divorced parents. Unlike her older sisters, Aria has great sensitivity and is great at writing. However, nobody congratulates her w...

• Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard)